School of Politics and International Relations

Professor Philip Cowley, Brexit will make Londoners and their city poorer, poll reveals

30 March 2017

A new research project launched today by QMUL to analyse political trends in the capital city has revealed Londoners giving a huge thumbs down to Brexit, saying it will make them and the capital poorer. By overwhelming margins, they believe London and Britain will lose influence, haemorrhage jobs and see damage to the National Health Service. Prof Philip Cowley, director of QMUL’s Mile End Institute, said “Conventional polls just lump London in with the rest of England, but we know it behaves very differently.”
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